Scarlet & Tamsin Allen: The Next Generation of Food | Ballymaloe Festival of Food 2025

Filmed at Ballymaloe Grainstore during the Ballymaloe Festival of Food 2025.

Back by popular demand, cousins Scarlet and Tamsin Allen return to the stage with a joyful and confident demo that celebrates simple, traditional cooking done right. Representing the next generation of Irish food, these two young cooks (both just 16) showcase impressive skills, knowledge, and passion.

In this session, they make homemade butter, sweet scones, and raspberry jam from scratch, sharing practical tips along the way. From using Jersey cream for higher butterfat, to reusing buttermilk in baking, to understanding pectin in jam-making, this demo is full of insight as well as personality.

With deep roots in Irish food culture and strong family influences, Scarlet and Tamson highlight the importance of learning to cook from scratch and keeping food traditions alive.

Chapters
00:00 Intro – The next generation of food
00:10 Meet Scarlet & Tamsin Allen
00:40 What they’re making today
01:15 Starting the homemade butter
02:08 Making the scone dough
03:58 Butter making tips
05:01 Preparing the scones for baking
07:09 Shaping and cutting the dough
09:28 Butter separating into buttermilk
11:58 Family food influences
13:47 Starting the raspberry jam
15:01 Jam-making tips (pectin & sugar)
17:24 Testing the jam
18:52 Finishing the butter
21:09 Seasoning the butter
23:23 Family stories & audience interaction
27:21 Filling the jars
31:42 Checking if scones are baked
32:47 Serving the scones
34:00 Outro

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